Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-06-16
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.
,nly one prisoner in the Lenawee


Game Warden w. b. Perkins, Of Kali
kaska, has resigned.
Wool is worth from 81 TO 80 cents per
pound at Coldwater.
-Cheboygan has shipped 1e, 900, 600 feet
of lumber this season.
-Coldwater Supervisors have put that
city down as being worth $685. ,925.
Hall & Buell., at their Manistique mill,
sawed log that produced 2,436 feet Of
lumber, 1910 feet Of which was clear. Il
was cut by band saw.
1t is alleged that insurance adjusters
in settling Lake Linden losses are dis
eliminating unfairly against the smaller
and poorer policy -holders.
An old clay pipe which was found In
the ruins of tho Packer fire, at Morenci, is
thought by some people to have been an
imr ortant factor in the cause.
-Coldwater young people are going to
organize lawn tennis club and the young
ladies will vie with each other as to who
will have the prettiest tennis suit.
Cows in Muskegon are not allowed to
stray into the region of saw-mills in that
city, for they are liable TO eat sawdust,
which gives their milk flavor Of pine chips.
The body Of man was found on
Davis farm in the woods, about six miles
from Muskegon, by children picking ber-
rieJ. The man is unknown, and has been
dead about two weeks. An inquest will be
held.
A verdict of $4,000 was given the
plaintiffs in the case of Cornell Brothers
VS.. The New Era Lumber Company, tried
recently at Hart. The trial was one Of the
longest and most expensive ever held in the
county.
George A. Torrance. resident OF Chi
cago, was caught in Kalamazoo attempting
TO pass on one of the banks forged check
for 800, signed by George Comstock, on
the Chicago National Bank. He was ar
rested.
Michael Klais has been sent TO Jail at
Ann Arbor for thirty days for brutally
kicking and beating his wife. If no
doesn't give q bond to do better in the fu-
ture he will remain in jail thirty days
longer.
Edward Belding, of Otisco, drove to
Ionia with a brand-new buggy. While eat
ing dinner at the hotel some one took q
fancy to the rig and drove of with it.
Neither the rig nor the envious party has
yet been found.
| Date claxr Goh hate cIaru uxxiIl nnt
special cor soon with 8,0OO,O0 or 9,OOO,-
OGO wall-eyed pike. They will be princi-
pally planted in the southern part of the
State-in Branch, Hillsdale, Jackson and
Lenawee Counties-in all the principal
lakes and rivers.
Byron Poole, Of Plymouth, has sold
his famous black pony PAGERS, Senator
Hine and Little Nose, to Mr.. Green, Of
Au Sable, for $500. II took but fifteen
minutes to make the trade by just trip
around the trotting course of the fair
. grounds at Plymouth.
: John Sullivan, received at the Jackson
Prison from lngham County Dec. 2S, 1886.
on q three years sentence for burglary,
! and Theodore Murdock, who has been in
prison since April, 1879, for assault with
intent to commit murder, have been taken
= to the Asylum for Insane Criminals at
: Ionia.
There are no flies on the Bronson fire
y department. The other day while the fire.
men were scattered about the town, an
! alarm was sounded, aud in two aud one
. quarter minutes they had the hand-engine
I and hose cart twenty rods from the engine
! house, laid $50 feet of hose and COM
: menced throwing water.
! The Kalkaska stave mill ia to be re-
!, moved to Manton. The latter town is TO
I, furnish ten acres of ground on which to
Q operate the business, and is also to furnish
Q 1000 cords OF stave bolts on or before Oc-
Q tober next, and to receive 1925 per cord
8 therefor. II less than 81 900 cords are
o furnished the price is to be $1.75 per cord.
Il e. Palmer, of Union City, middle
: aged farmer and cattle buyer, put up at
n the Commercial House at Jackson. At Z
q o'clock the next morning when the clerk
$ went to call him he detected the odor OF
|. gas. and receiving no response, climbed
7. over the transom. Palmer was unconscious,
: and after an hours hard work was revived.
Palmer will turn the gas of next time.
@ "A turtle was recently captured near
y Hubbardston, Ionia County. having cut in
. its shell the letters and fguros, e. NJ. NJ.
X r. E. E. R., 1871, The attention of Mr..
y E. E. Row, 81 Lansing, being called to the
!. capture, he states that in 1871 he cut his
r initials on q turtle that he found there. and
{ which had been marked with an. Il. F" by
o his brother some six years before that time.
!, The letters "E. NJ" have been added since
. by the aged turtles third captor.
il The spring fair Of Washtenaw Coun y
D was not a glittering success, ~ the
il rain fell in torrents during the three
It days of the fair. The grounds wero soak
Il ing wet, and II was an enthusia who
) braved the elements to look at the cattlt
: or agricultural display. In fact the Secrr-
!. tary of the fair was the only man on tho
> grounds for two hours one morning. The
>, display was an excellent one, however, il
the sight-seers were not numerous.
N Mrs. Tide Bennett, another OK the cd
Is time cottage managers OF the State Public